potential qr rail in west pilbara

Story in today's West Australian Newspaper again drawing attention to the attempted QR push into WA's Pilbara region.

The article suggested that the WA Govt see QR as a viable proposition for providing rail solutions in the Pilbara for a bunch of budding producers, and that they might be used to break the hold of BHP/RIO/FMG over rail pathways to ports.

They specifically mentioned AGO in the article as perhaps teaming up with QR, and reiterated that production volumes around 12Mt p/a could be enough to justify building new rail pathways.

I reckon AQA will definitely be talking to QR as a potential solution to take over & run the Anketell Rail line which would spare AQA a massive amount of capital and (of course) open up plenty of other budding producers in the West Pilbara - one being IOH at Bungaroo South.